"How's the picture taking speed? Is there much of a delay from when you push the button and when it takes the picture?
30299
Perhaps it is the settings we have the camera on now, but yes, there is a delay. It's not huge, but if you were to take a picture of a graduate walking across the stage, you would not be able to click, click, click and get three progressive pictures.
30300
It is pretty slow between shots. More than three seconds. It seems that it takes a long time to autofocus between shots. I put an 8gb sd card in and now most of the time I shoot in continuous shooting mode, which takes as many shots as you'd like rapidly, as long as you hold down the shutter button. Remember this is not an expensive camera. I have a Lumix DMC-ZS10 (about 2 years old), which was almost $300 at the time, which takes only a second or less between pics.
1917690
Like most digital cameras there is a distinct pause between pushing the shutter button and the picture being taken. So you may not get the exact picture you were hoping for. Other than that it works fine for this.
1105175
Like most point and click digital cameras, this has an auto-focus. When you depress the button part way, it will focus. Then a complete press will take that picture. If you do not pause to focus and just push the button hard, it will have a very slight pause as it does have to take the time to focus. If it didn't you pictures would be blurry.I used this on a trip where I needed a bunch of spontaneous pictures and the lag was not annoying. Quickly taken shots came out great.
1814872
There is quite a delay. it does take beautiful pictures and the zoom is fantastic!
1441602
I find that there is no lag time, or lag time of perhaps 1/10th of a second. Perhaps there is a lag time involving focus, but if you focus the camera and then press the button there is no lag time.
32229
I have no complaints. There is a mode setting for fast action which sets a relatively higher ISO speed and opens up the F stop to maximize the shutter speed. And of course, if you halfway depress the shutter, it virtually eliminates shutter lag.
2276371
My wife and I bought this camera for a trip we took to Italy, I worked out great, we took several hunder pictures but I never noticed a delay. Make sure you use at least a class 10 SD card and i believe you will be satisfied.
57054
I'm not sure I understand your question, but if you are asking if there is a delay while pressing the button on the transmitter, it is instantaneous in response. No different than pushing the shutter button directly on the camera. I've had this unit for a number of months now and really like it. Works really well.
1610487
It sounds like you have your shutter set to a 10-second delay. Typically this setting is used when the photographer wants to be in the picture. Press the button to the left of the SET button and choose the single-shot or continuous option. Then the camera will take the picture as soon as you press the shutter.
2237764
This camera is very slow to take a picture, it takes to long from turn on and be ready to take a picture, and when it is on you push the button and the perfect moment for the picture goes...., battery quickly dies in cold or hot weather, no matter what happens battery dies.
1505635
I don't feel any delay issues when snapping, to me is fast enough. The battery is decent so far; i bought and extra batery tough
1402455
Yes, pushing the button in takes the picture, and if you push in the button and slide it forward, it locks in place and will take consecutive pictures until your camera can't handle it anymore. Works perfect.
667243
There is a slight delay - but honestly it's not bad. This is by far the best point and shoot that I've ever owned, and I've owned 8.
1105177
This is indeed a common problem with digital compact cameras but with this one I don't notice any delay. Maybe because I always start with half pressing the shutter before I take the shot. In this way the focusing is done already.
1476440
Yeah - it's slow when it takes pictures. I bought it for my 6 year old nephew so he's thrilled with it.
1505636
About delay when snapping photos - I don't see any since you have to adjust focus when you press half way down to focus for each shot. The manual says you can keep snapping away and the camera will catch up. If you want a faster camera you'll have to go to something more professional and more expensive. Battery life - The Canon Battery that came with it doesn't last that long. I went on Amazon and bought the Wasabi 3.7V and ultra high 1300mAh with their charger and they last a long time.
560718
You can set the aperture to be as fast or pretty much as slow as you want it with this camera. No delay that I can tell, when you have a fast shutter speed set.